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In Colorado, ObamaCare Ads Look More Like Animal House M.D.

Back when I was a wee li’l blogger just finding my way in the online world, I created a lot of Photoshops (like this, this and this). They were fun to make, but as we entered the Age of Obama, the actual photos became funnier than anything I could create (like this, this and this).

The deeper we fall into the President’s progressive rabbit hole, the more ridiculous the images get. Take Colorado’s latest effort to con encourage young, healthy Americans to sign up for Obamacare.

The Centennial State launched its “Get Covered” effort by paying nearly naked models to prance around downtown Denver in flesh-toned skivvies. How this stunt escaped the notice of ever-vigilant feminist groups is beyond me, but it apparently had little impact.

Despite spending more than $21 million in taxpayer funds to promote the Colorado exchange, a paltry 226 people enrolled in the first week. It’s early yet, but a cost of $93,000 per victim is bad, even for the government.

But have no fear, Colorado taxpayers: Denver’s latter-day Don Drapers have created a brilliant new campaign to sell Obama’s signature train wreck on an unsuspecting populace. Behold “Brosurance.”

The first in a series of ads steals the trademarked “Got Milk” tagline, repurposing the catchphrase to sell really bad insurance. The ad then insults their target market: the healthy young people Obamacare needs to pay for the health care of older Americans.

Keg stands are crazy. Not having health insurance is crazier. Don’t tap into your beer money to cover those medical bills. We got it covered. Now you can too.

If you like your keg, you can keep your keg. But why blow your dough on a liver transplant when you could spend it on binge drinking — amirite, broheims? ::high fiving followed by chest bumping followed by passing out::

Dean Wormer said, “fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.” But to our bumbling central planners, that is the ideal candidate to recruit as a lifetime ward of the state. Give a bro a beer, he’ll love you for a day; teach him how to keg stand and he’ll vote Democrat forever.

Two of the losers in the brosurance ad appear in another equally moronic appeal to underemployed millennials. “Yo Mom, do I got insurance?” bro #1 asks as the copy explains that this mid-20s manbaby somehow sustained a massive head injury during a simple game of golf.

These latest Obamacare pitches are an embarrassment. Not that long ago, the only U.S. government ads targeting young men encouraged them to “be all they can be” or perhaps join “The Few. The Proud. The Marines.”

Today, we’re telling twentysomethings they should just throw a kegger since mommy can fix any boo-boos they get during their 4th anniversary funemployment party.

Following reports that President-elect Donald Trump has named House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-Ga.) to serve as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, FreedomWorks CEO Adam Brandon commented:

The Obamacare law passed by Congress was huge, nearly 1,000 pages long. But that was just the start; the law was followed by a flood of new federal regulations. By one calculation, for every one word in the Obamacare legislation, there have been 30 words-worth of regulations issued. This wave of regulation has resulted in ever higher premium costs.

Americans are furious with the overt corruption and incompetence of our politicians and government. Throughout recent years, most Americans have experienced stagnate wages. Our morbid, economic growth is dangerously lower than historical averages. Our unemployed and underemployed are much greater than reported. ObamaCare has caused thousands of people to lose insurance and doctors. Health insurance premiums are skyrocketing. ObamaCare stifles employment.

FreedomWorks today blasted the Obama administration for its plan to bail out health insurance plans that have lost money participating in ObamaCare. The plan, which was described in the Washington Post Thursday, circumvents the congressional prohibition on taxpayer dollars being used for ObamaCare’s risk corridors program.